skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should have smoother scaling path here soon, for now you can email support and we can likely set something custom up for you.

Also, the $49 - $149 jump is both faster and more redundant.
I'd be interested to hear more experienced Android devs compare and contrast this project with Android Bootstrap:

http://www.androidbootstrap.com/

which I'm thinking of trying out once I'm done with my current app.
I disagree with you, and so does wikipedia: "The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[2] commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet."
Oh. She doesn't think it's not important nor does she think it doesn't happen. She thought it was sensationalist. She thought that Faruks comments were incredibly broad themselves. Feeling thay saying that every woman in tech fears rape every day and such were over the top.
Mired in Crisis, European Union Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Who Else Wants 1,000 Options?
Every form of dress is a form of communication, and has the potential for influence.

Even taking no thought and wearing the simplest possible thing communicates "I invested no effort in putting my outfit on today". Which can itself be a status play - the person doing this is saying, I don't have to dress to impress others.
Booting Linux on large GPT disks without EFI
It always astonishes me to see people selectively quote a source that says the exact opposite of what they want it to say. I've seen it happen often enough that I shouldn't be surprised, but I have trouble understanding the level of fundamental dishonesty that is required to do that.
Sure, and as a meek, non-arrogant person, I'm so going to be fucked over by this if I'm not careful. :)
know when to break the rules
In terms of acidity it's the other way around. From the article:

"say you have two liquids, like Diet Coke and Coke Zero. Diet Coke has a pH of 4. Coke Zero has a pH of 3. Since pH measurements are logarithmic, this means that Coke Zero is ten times more acidic than Diet Coke."
Why I two-space: because I use Emacs, whose auto-fill-mode treats treats single spaces behind a dot as unbreakable. My text, my editor, my rules. I will happily one-space in a project where it is the convention though.

Did we need so much text?
PayPal is not a mobile wallet company
On attempting to signup, I am getting this:

Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
More information is available with DEBUG=True.

Anybody else?
The PHP renaissance collection
Glad you liked it. I'm glad people are finding out about this and think it's as cool as I do.
"I don't view the low proportion of women in tech as a serious problem (I think it's determined by the typical obsessions of twelve-year-olds)."

Which also has to do with sexism and gender roles in society.
So there's no specific gum disease bacteria? It's just the same bacteria that causes cavities?
Apple puts money where its mouth is, pays for Swiss railway clock design
You should show an example card.
I like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and command line to do basic things, but beyond that I have some trouble. After doing research to find a better hosting option I went with Webbynode.

http://webbynode.com

I use it for my rails based startup padseeker.com. It makes pushing code via git as easy as it is for heroku, but it is more flexible, i.e. allows file uploads w/o using s3, you can use mysql or postgres (heroku only allows postgres without another service). It's been overall a good experience, very little down time. Heroku might be better for certain things, but webbynode has been perfect for my needs.

It's not free though - lowest plan is $15 per month. I know digital ocean starts as low as $5 per month. Dotcloud and Appfog are either free or cheap and seem comparable.
Apple pays up for Swiss clock design
Did you read the article? Coke zero is ten times more acidic than diet coke.
Agreed. Laura's article was focused and well-argued on specific points.

Faruk's was bland, academic, overwrought, and jargon-laden.
But how does working for Apple and writing Modenizr qualify him to speak about sexism?

It doesn't - it sounds like an appeal to authority. My guess is that had the roles been reversed, with Faruk as a male arguing how he didn't see sexism, and Laura as a female arguing otherwise, that the whole "but Faruk worked for Apple and wrote Modenizr" line wouldn't give his viewpoints on sexism more credence with the parent poster.
> Text editors use monospaced fonts!

> It doesn’t matter what editor you use. Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Gedit, Notepad++? All of them use monospaced fonts.

No they don't. What silliness is this?

From the author's list, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Gedit, and Notepad++ all support proportional fonts.

Of the other editors I use frequently, Komodo IDE, Visual Studio, UltraEdit/UEStudio, XML Marker 2, and MarkdownPad among others all support proportional fonts.

So write in a monospaced font if that's what you prefer, but nobody is making you do it.
Setting up Node.js and PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Servers
Ask HN: In SF for the weekend - are there a few designers I can meet?
Hey guys, I'm in the city for the weekend and am looking for a designer to engage to create a few psd's. Do you usually use Dribbble to find your designers? craigslist? I'm running a startup applying machine learning algorithms and optimization techniques to create scheduling efficiencies in doctor's offices and would like someone to take my wireframes and go to town. Thanks all for your responses.
Has this become possible due to some new iOS6 feature? Afaik previously there was no way you could inject events or grab the screen contents outside of your own app... I'm talking about non-JB devices of course. So how did you do it? Partnership with Apple? Private APIs? I'm really curious.
First the knowledge graph, now the game of life animation.

It really seems Google is trying to be more and more like Wolfram|Alpha!

:)
Feedback Highlighting on LayerVault (Bees or Beads?)
He's bringing up valid points surrounded by the word rape. It's almost a Godwin's Law. He's presenting the most extreme example again and again in a post that otherwise has some validity.

Of course I disagree with rape. It's a very personal matter close to my heart for many reasons. But it is an extreme outcome of sexism, it is not the problem because of sexism nor is it the reason sexism happens.
This will tell vim to display "as much as possible of the last line in a window".

set display+=lastline
So if I sync my emails to my phone than I have two copies and according to their logic the online one is a backup, right?
Time to Stop Paying GitHub's Toll
Really cool, I wonder why I hadn't heard of tDCS before this article, especially since it doesn't seem dangerous at all.

DBS on the other hand is a little more scary because of that fact that it requires an invasive procedure. If you can control depression couldn't you control other emotions as well? Maybe we will get something like from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" where we can set our state of mind to "professional" or "morose".
The Urban Geography of Klout scores
Kickstarter has credibility though. I'm comfortable giving them my money, because I know I'll get it back if the project isn't funded.

Lockitron and App.net have their own credibility based on who they are and who has invested in them.

If I was to put up a SelfStarter page, there isn't anything to stop me from just taking everyone's money regardless of the funding status.
Unless your brain has a USB socket, no.
By default, Emacs considers a period followed by two spaces or by a newline as the end of a sentence; a period followed by just one space indicates an abbreviation, not the end of a sentence. Accordingly, the fill commands will not break a line after a period followed by just one space. If you set the variable sentence-end-double-space to nil, the fill commands will break a line after a period followed by one space, and put just one space after each period. See Sentences, for other effects and possible drawbacks of this.
That's not actually true. Carmack uploaded the source for the level editor and utilities for modders to use. The modding community just made much better and easier to use tools. .wad files were also created specifically to encourage modding and make it non-destructive.

Excerpt from Masters of Doom:

> Though Carmack and Romero were intrigued and inspired by these actions, they were concerned over the destructive quality of the mods. Players had to erase the original Wolfenstein code and replace it with their own images; once a Nazi was changed into Barney, there was no way to bring the Nazi back quickly. For Doom, Carmack organized the data so players could replace sound and graphics in a nondestructive manner. He created a subsystem that separated the media data, called WADs (an acronym suggested by Tom Hall, it stood for Where’s All the Data?), from the main program. Every time someone booted up the game, the program would look for the WAD file of sounds and images to load in. This way, someone could simply point the main program to a different WAD without damaging the original contents. Carmack would also upload the source code for the Doom level-editing and utilities program so that the hackers could have the proper tools with which to create new stuff for the game.
There are a few companies who does this - check out http://www.dympol.net/

I do like the idea - but would rather see it on a thank you page (e.g. after subscribing) or (after checkout) not in middle in case a customer bails.
You can't really like email documents or accounts to each other, so I don't think they're part of the "web" of connected pages.
Thanks for the heads-up. A quick google later and I see it's a common issue. It even seems to be unstable when I zoom in/out, whereas some levels of zoom are sometimes at least readable but bringing it back to the default zoom will show a different rendering than initially. Very odd indeed.

I've tried fiddling with the Cleartype settings but it doesn't seem to help.
90% of regulars here could have written the original article. Therefore, there was little to be gained by reading it.

The rebuttal may not have been of great importance, but we couldn't have written it. It's one person's experience (though there are probably a significant number like her) and it adds to our model of the situation. Also, it makes a significant meta-point: stereotyping is bad even when done by the self-proclaimed champions of the stereotyped group.
i believe (from memory) that the argument is that wearing helmets deters people from cycling which has a cost in terms of deaths from conditions related to lack of exercise.

(and that's a broader argument than the one covered by the paper you link to)
Do photos online help sell homes faster?
If you capitalize the first word of each sentence it becomes rather obvious if you forget a period.
> and use Whitesmiths

I beg your pardon.
I used to question most of those people too (and still do), but someone explained it fairly well in response to why patio11 did this with his drip marketing class: it's simply a scale out strategy. Given the available time an expert has, one could make $X as one person just doing it; with consulting and teaching others, you might reach 5 people in a year; but by turning that learning into intellectual property that can be distributed (as a class, a video, a book) you might be able to reach 100x the people.

That said, there are certainly gurus who are merely selling hope, often because the easy money has been made and they can wind down what they've learned because the edge no longer exists.

You know what I can't figure out though? Why is Mark Cuban shooting a commercial to pimp lame shoes?
I don't know if one could call NKS terse, at over 1000 pages. It was a very enjoyable and mildly enlightening read, I'd recommend it, but I'd really like to see his theories fleshed out in a more formal way. It was a bit heavy on conjecture and speculation for me.
Slacktivism is clicking 'like' or 'share' on Facebook® or at most making a Rage comic about the issue.

That African warlord thing was Slacktivism.

This is using the very skilled and time limited computer programmers to work many hours to try to solve a real problem.

It will still fail, but it is not slacktivism.
Hey, I had the naive implementation at the bottom of my post. I had a working one. It just sucked.
Progressive enhancement for bot detection... I like your idea. This is much, much better than simply stopping anyone without JS enabled from using the form.
Using Zenbox and Mixpanel for Support and Sales (for fun and for profit)
Steve's arguments aren't stupid. The argument itself is stupid.
Opa Gangnam Style
To the tune of 'national security' or something equally ominous.
And set an inconspicuous user agent!
Establishing Habits with Lift
Since proper nouns are also capitalized, it is ambiguous and you can't script around it.
Ammann-Beenker | Tilings Encyclopedia
Docverter is a collection of a few pieces of software that get used at various times. For example, if you do markdown to docx you'll just be using Pandoc. If you convert to PDF you'll be going through flying saucer. If you go markdown to PDF you'll go through both. MOBI conversions go through Pandoc to get an ePub and then through Calibre to get the mobi.

The point is that you don't have to worry about those pieces, though, since Docverter abstracts over them with a simple API.
The most useful books I've read for my development and startup project has been as follows;

Getting Real - Its free so no excuse not to download it http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling - http://www.startupbook.net/

The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez - This has been huge benefit to understanding rails more than any other online tutorial or documentation - http://www.informit.com/store/rails-3-way-9780321601667

Rails Up and Running - it's only for Rails version 2 but this was for me the most effective book for learning rails. They should really reissue the book for version 3. I bought it 4 months before rails 3 was released but I still refer back to it for some stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense now but since I was just starting Rails had some exposure to 2 and 3 it was very helpful - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596522018.do
Semantic Dynamic Forms in Django
Another notable thing about DOOM was that it was unabashedly written in 99.9% C, with only a few (http://code.metager.de/source/xref/idsoftware/doom/README.as...) exceptions for rendering inner loops. The myth that a performant game required copious assembly code was on the ropes at this point, but DOOM completely killed it (as did having faster/better compilers and CPUs).
BSD users treated updates like going to the dentist and put them off until forced

Not typical of any BSD sysadmin I've known, ever. OTOH if your "BSD users" were not sysadmins that would explain it.

install time ... days for FreeBSD even when performed by our resident FreeBSD advocate

Clearly your "FreeBSD advocate" did not know what he/she was doing. Without provisioning a FreeBSD install should not differ from an Ubuntu or RH install by more than a few minutes (in either direction).

But in a datacenter provisioning is critical, and FreeBSD ceeded that space to RH's kickstart long ago. BSD also tied a ball and chain deprecating multi-partition default root volumes (when 1G drives became commonplace.

But more than anything else FreeBSD lost this race by not developing user-friendly installation software (GUI or CLI).

But for those who do know how to install BSD and the difference between things as fundmental as portinstall vs makeworld the ongoing time spent updating and upgrading will pay that back may times over. This is because: A) the ports system works across _all_ versions and architectures i.e., you don't have to upgrade the entire OS simply to upgrade say mysql to 5.5, B) OS upgrades break far fewer apps in BSD than any version of Linux, C) kernel vulnerabilities average once every few years in BSD vs ever few weeks (sometimes days) in Linux, and D) backwards compatibility is far better (recall when RH tried to "deprecate" nslookup for example).

The BSD systems were simply less stable

This would be due to your user-sysadmin's skillset as everyone else's experience is the opposite (as noted in the OP).
Motoring in the Age of the Smartphone: Handsets vs. Dashboards
I like EBM. I would love to live in a world in which it is practiced properly. One of the biggest problems with EBM, though, is that what often is advertised EBM, actually isn't.

My ex was a medical doctor, and for fun I used to read NEMJ and BMJ articles through her subscription. If you trace through references, you often find a (reasonably rigorous) study with reasonable effect observed on a group 40 norwegian women aged 40-50; which in a later article referencing it is assumed to apply to all women in that age group; and through the years is assumed to apply to all women in all age groups. And that's the part that is "easy" to trace (except no one ever does, and it's not really easy)

Additionally, the statistical evidence is inherently weaker than is presented (in a way which no one can actually evaluate) due to the lack of accounting for negative results and unreported trials.

Also, accepted login in EBM is not acceptable from a math perspective. Seth Robert's recent blog post gives a striking example: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/10/11/jama-jumps-to-conclus... ; Tell someone about YOUR (n=1, but better controlled than most medical tests!) experiment with Vitamin D, and they'll likely counter with "Oh, but that has been refuted. It's just placebo". That's a big percentage of how EBM is used in practice. And that's the part I don't like.
This happened to me recently with a WP blog. It happened quite by accident, however, since the client just didn't want the website field. When comments still came in with a URL, the client was concerned that I had screwed up - but it clicked right away for me that these must be bots. It might have been a little disheartening for the client, since a number of these spam messages were along the lines of "I have never read such a great article. I have bookmarked your blog and will come back every day to read more of your insightful posts." What unaware blog owner wouldn't want that on their comments? Crafty spammers.
But you should always use "i.e." because it's an abbreviation for two words. And I can't even think of a case that you wouldn't follow it with a comma (i.e., "i.e.,"), so that doesn't conflict with the ". " end-of-sentence pattern.
>>Siri and similar voice-recognition assistants could become the new secretaries. If they improve significantly, look for an always-on version that looks for a keyword trigger and talks back through a speaker. Having an invisible servant would be a serious status marker, but only if it becomes both reliable and ostentatious. Having the quiet space necessary to do this regularly is a marker by itself.

I like your list, but doesn't the low incremental cost of a virtualized assistant, as available to Joe Biden as Joe the Plumber, take this out as a marker?

I suspect most markers going forward are going to have to be physical things that are more rare, and frankly somewhat useless. 6 legged genetically engineered green pocket pigs with stupid haircuts and matching sunglasses kind of thing.
> Another widely-used format, LaTeX, splits the difference and actually uses somewhere between one and two spaces (by default).

Actually, it doesn't. TeX (the actual typesetter; LaTeX is a macro system on top) inserts a space that is slightly more stretchable than the space between words.
Draw a stickman
"Taboo" is a registered trademark. You're probably legally in the clear to describe your game as "Taboo-like", but if your app becomes at all popular, you're likely to get a C&D if not outright sued for using the term "Taboo" so freely throughout your app.
Retooling an Old Car For Smartphone Apps
There is still a market for them, and they go for about $40 on ebay. They have a great keyboard and run for weeks on batteries. I have a policy of giving them to children for their tenth birthday, along with a book on BASIC programming.
A possible confusion of correlation and causation. A house with more picturesque traits tends to be photographed more, and it's also more likely to sell more quickly than a house with fewer picturesque traits.

Somehow I think this scientific critique won't sway those who believe more photos = faster sales, regardless of other factors.
That's just one example. Remember that when he returned to Apple, he killed most of the product lines.
Do you use a proportional-width font for viewing code?
The same is true for me. Damn typing classes would mark you down if you didn't two space, so that drove me into two spacing everything, as well. I've been trying to push myself into single spacing for a while now, though...It's tough.
For those that actually want to see how some canopies are tested then check out this video from the R&D department of Performance Designs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERRrUcyOiE4
Sorry, I meant the first comment on the story, should have specified that!
I would love to hear your feedback!
This is a neat idea. Now I have to go change all my LaTeX files.
BSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel, checkout the FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Darwin sources and you'll find a complete OS in the source tree.

Debian/FreeBSD isn't linux because it doesn't use the Linux kernel. I think there is more question as to wether most Linux distributions are Linux or GNU/Linux than whether Debian/FreeBSD is Linux.

Hopefully RMS doesn't read this comment.
Attention: Check Google Chrome for the Settings Protector extension
Somehow our viral marketing campaign went beyond expectations :-)
ah, ok. maybe "pointless debate" would be clearer than "stupid argument"? i don't think i'm the only one that misunderstood...
Altassian bitbucket - free private git hosting. Github is great but no free private plan.
Just throwing this out there, my startup tracks which web hosting companies people like the most based on opinions shared in social media: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/

I am personally on liquidweb and aws. free tier on aws is great for testing stuff not on my local machines.
I don't really believe your "equal speeds" claim. No robotic electric car will be able to use today's infrastructure at 200+ MPH.
When I first saw the OP title, I immediately thought Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" in which he describes the "pre-mortem" process, in which doubt and dissent are rewarded, rather than seen as joy-kills:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-24/bias-blindness-and-...

>> Klein’s proposal, which he calls the “premortem,” is simple: When the organization has almost come to an important decision but hasn’t committed itself, it should gather a group of people knowledgeable about the decision to listen to a brief speech: “Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome has been a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.”
As a team converges on a decision, public doubts about the wisdom of the planned move are gradually suppressed and eventually come to be treated as evidence of flawed loyalty. The suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice. The main virtue of the premortem is that it legitimizes doubts.
Furthermore, it encourages even supporters of the decision to search for possible threats not considered earlier. The premortem isn’t a panacea and doesn’t provide complete protection against nasty surprises, but it goes some way toward reducing the damage of plans that are subject to the biases of uncritical optimism.
Should government be more like a computer game?